| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 30 Tobacco farmers |
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| During flue curing, the green tobacco leaf is kept at high temperatures for about a |
| week. Affluent nations use oil or gas as fuel, but third world nations use wood. |
| Worldwide, about 2.5 million tons of tobacco are flue cured each year with wood. |
| Tobacco growing thus requires the destruction of forests and results in adverse |
| environmental impact in some developing countries where tobacco production is |
| encouraged, often at the expense of staple food crops. |
| AMA Fact Sheet on Smoking |
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| The cost of tobacco constitutes only about 8% of the retail price of each pack of |
| cigarettes. This translates to a total cost of about $2 billion per year for the 24 billion |
| packs of cigarettes made for domestic consumption, much less than the $5.3 billion |
| "overhead" for advertising and promotion. |
| Journal of the National Cancer Institute, March 16, 1988, p. 83 |
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| About 35% of US-grown tobacco is exported. In 1990, about 137,000 farms (down |
| from 179,000 in 1987) grew tobacco on an estimated 763,000 acres. |
| Tobacco Use: An American Crisis, p. 84 |
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| In 1952, US tobacco manufacturers bought 1.6 billion pounds of tobacco from US |
| farmers. By 1994, this had dropped to 0.8 billion pounds. In the same period, |
| imported tobacco increased from 10% to 40% in American cigarettes despite 150 |
| million pounds of surplus stockpiled tobacco that was bought up at double the price of |
| imported tobacco. |
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